Energy Bureau Services for Energy Managers
Energy Bureau Services
Wasting time with poor quality energy bureau services and wasting energy have one thing in common – no one wants to do either if they can possibly avoid it!
Energy Managers often waste a huge amount of ‘time’ in the effort to, indeed, ‘save’ energy and it’s all because of the overwhelming and never-ending requirement of administration tasks. They don’t want to waste time and certainly not energy but they often can’t help it.
This is the area we are dedicated to changing and alleviating with technology …enter the era of robotic process automation (RPA for short)!
Energy Managers need effective Energy Bureau Services
Now, this might sound a bit far off, but robotic automation is the next step in artificial intelligence for business and will help transform energy bureau services.
We forecast that cloud computing and robotic process automation will disrupt the energy sector, automating energy bill management – and even procurement itself.
Third party intermediaries (TPIs) bill validation firms and energy bureau services are facing a pivotal moment as they are disrupted by technology – Robotic process automation (RPA). RPA is a new scalable technology that provides automation of manual or multiple complex processes to significantly enhance business tools.
Energy managers have the opportunity to harness this technology now more than ever because RPA enhances the way in which we can manage our energy spend, delivering powerful tools that make advanced decisions and eliminate human error.
We would like to introduce to you EaaSi. EaaSi is powered by RPA and brought to market by utility procurement and energy efficiency management specialists Catalyst Commercial Services.
EaaSi is the UK’s only cloud based integrated digital platform to fully automate and validate your energy spend management across all departments, locations and energy output feeds. EaaSi uses RPA to provide a fully automated energy spend management platform delivering insights to businesses on your utility bills and the data associated to your meter end points instantaneously. In essence, it puts power back in the hands of energy managers.
However, we want to go further than disrupting the Third-Party Intermediaries marketplace, we want – in fact, we will – inherently change how energy spend is managed.
What does the EaaSi platform do:
- utilises artificial intelligence to automate contract and billing management, delivering accurate and transparent results in minutes instead of months.
- automatically pulls together end-to-end utility data into a single place, removing the need for human intervention and massively reducing resource requirements for contract management.
- interfaces with accounting packages such as SAP, Sage and major ERP systems.
- gives finance departments immediate visibility on energy spend, billing cycles and provides fully automated, wholly transparent bill validation.
- creates a digital filing cabinet for all utility data and contract information.
- links into supplier’s systems, automatically requests bills and uses machine learning to fill in any gaps.
The three big benefits of EaaSi for energy managers
1. Automation of bills: at present energy managers receive paper or PDF bills from multiple suppliers, these require manual data to validate the bills as accurate. The latter takes time and often the company has to pay the bills to the supplier before the bill validation company can come back and say whether the bill is correct. This then results in the client having over or under paid their bill, which in turn requires businesses to chase or pay more. With EaaSi the bill validation is done in the software and in real time. The software chases down any inaccuracies with the bills directly with the supplier and validates programmatically (RPA) meaning no third party or manual data entry and no chasing and waiting on the business behalf. Once validated it sends the data direct to the finance team via open API to their finance software packages to sit directly in the P&L. No more reporting from energy to finance and finance have the data instantaneously.
2. Monitoring Energy: the ability to monitor and manage consumption in real time against forecasted consumption so business can manage whether they are using what they expected and therefore allow finance to keep a consistent budget management program in place.
3. Environmental reporting: environmental governance and reporting – something businesses need to do, and this validates to aid in the requirements on business. Makes the energy manager’s job easier.
To request a demonstration of the EaaSi platform or to hear how EaaSi is helping large, multi-site and SME businesses save vast amounts of time and money, do get in touch with the team.
About Catalyst Commercial Services
Catalyst is a market leading independent energy consultancy that provides energy procurement, sustainability and environmental services. Catalyst is one of the leading providers of utility purchasing and contract negotiation services to the commercial sector. With over 15 years’ experience in this dynamic market, the team of energy market professionals provide a full options appraisal for business utility contract needs.
